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Is it allowed to use ideas from open source in closed source software?
I've met people who say to not even look at open source (GPL and LGPL were mentioned) if you write closed source software.
Started by Piotr Dobrogost on
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While the exact details differed based on which license, you can sometimes not use any code from an open-source project in a closed-source they can be patented....
Yes, it is allowed to use ideas from open-source software.
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E-Texteditor recently announced going open-source with their open company model. However after reading through I am not sure if this model is really open.
The way I understand is that they open up the source and contributors, depending on how much the...
Started by aleemb on
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It's just not the traditional way of doing of the extra clause means... .
It looks perfectly fine to me as an open source project.
Google takes contributions.
The actual open source part of it is a project called Chromium.
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I am trying to download the source code for wget in Mac.
I managed to get the source code of wget in Ubuntu by
apt-get source wget
However, I have not managed to download source codes in Mac's terminal. I did not find the same utility in MacPorts.
Started by Masi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Apt-get control....
Most open source projects provide a compressed archive of their source code, or a readable version source projects, look at Fink , a dpkg system for Mac OS X with various open source packages.
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I have been using an open source Java project and had to make some custom changes for our site. I have downloaded the source code via Subversion, modified two files and built a custom JAR file. Now I need to store these custom changes into OUR Subversion...
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You would create a vendor branch for the open source Java project in your, if it is possible try to get your changes into the open-source project (less work for your self.
Like exactly what you want.
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We in our company are looking to setup a code repository to which multiple groups can contribute. I am looking for a system like Google Code with following features:
i. Wiki
ii. Issue Tracker
iii. Source Repository (SVN integration)
iv. Control the access...
Started by rAm on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Github.com/
This from the FAQ :
Is Google Code's implementation itself open source?
As with most project-hosting sites, our underlying technology is a mixture of open source and proprietary code on Subversion, a popular....
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We have taken an open-source application, released under GPL ver1.09 and have modified some parts of its source and have made some customisations/enhancements as per our requirement.
We are using this application for non-commercial, internal purposes ...
Started by Mohit Nanda on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Take a look at this: What GPL means
Short answer: if it's GPL, you have to:
give the source code of all asks for it As others have stated, you will only....
So you'd have to provide source to the entire application with the distribution.
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We are leaving VSS for TFS or any other alternatives. I'm the one who persists to go for an open source alternative like SVN. Now I'm searching for a good open source Version Control regarding following aspects:
We are in love with open source movement...
Started by afsharm on
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EDIT: If you....
It's not free (but not expensive), uses Open Source components, is incredibly well it's great value.
It's an open source plugin that you can read more about and download never looked back.
I really like AnkhSVN.
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I have a project (.NET 3.0, c#) that needs to be converted to open source (probably GPLv2).
The project uses some closed source libraries at its core that need to be replaced with open source ones.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the best open...
Started by Dana Holt on
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There's a simple SMTP client built into .Net..
VistaDB can be replaced by MySQL , SQLite , or even the express version of SQL Server 2008 (although SQL Server is not GPL) .
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I have a software project that I would like to sell, it uses open source software (not a direct derivative of the open source software, but uses it for certain functionality). Does this require that the entire project now be open source?
edit: The license...
Started by kylex on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Each of the most popular licenses allow you to do with code that uses or derives from open source software is built on top of the Open Source LGPL software) : You must publish your work under the same that derives or uses ....
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I'm looking to possibly move away from CVS (to maybe SVN).
Anyone know which open source version control systems integrate with the VB6 IDE (automatic checkouts, etc.) ?
Started by Clay Nichols on
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Visual SVN integrates with Visual Studio, although I don't know about the VB6 IDE:
http://www.visualsvn.com/
There are some answers here regarding... .
Tortoise SVN attaches to Windows and you can use it with anything including VB6, .NET or just files on your PC .
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